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{{Infobox person<br />
| other_names = Nanabhai<br />
| birth_date = {{circa|1898}}<br />
| birth_place = Matwadi, [[Bombay State]], British Raj<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1969|1898}}<br />
| alma_mater = <br />
| known_for = Secretary of the [[Transvaal Indian Congress]]<br />
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'''Nana Sita''' (also known as Nanabhai) was born in 1898 in Matwadi, a town in [[Bombay State]], [[British Raj|British India]], and grew up in a family involved in the [[Indian independence movement|Indian resistance movement]]. He went to [[South Africa]] in 1913 to study [[bookkeeping]], and lived for some time with J. P. Vyas in [[Pretoria]]. Shortly after his arrival, [[Mahatma Gandhi]] arrived in Pretoria for negotiations with [[Jan Smuts|General Jan Smuts]], and lived in the same house as Sita for almost two months. The interaction with [[Mahatma Gandhi|Gandhi]] had a great influence on his life and he was a great advocate of passive resistance. He served many prison sentences for refusing to leave his home, after the suburb where he lived with his family for 44 years became [[Racial segregation|whites-only]] under the [[apartheid]] policy of the [[Group Areas Act]].<ref>{{cite web |date=August 2012 |title=Pretoria Street Name Changes |url=https://showme.co.za/pretoria/files/2012/08/PretoriaStreetNameChanges.pdf |access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Landman |first=Christina |date=August 9, 2021 |title=The story of Nana Sita and the Group Areas Act |url=https://www.ajol.info/index.php/hts/article/view/212208 |journal=HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies |volume=77 |issue=2 |doi=10.4102/hts.v77i2.6323 |access-date=28 December 2024 |via=[[African Journals OnLine]]|doi-access=free }}</ref><br />
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He is best known for being the secretary of the [[Transvaal Indian Congress]].<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Street name ==<br />
Nana Sitastraat (formerly known as Skinnerstraat) in [[Pretoria]] was named after him in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ShowMe: Pretoria's new street names |url=http://showme.co.za/pretoria/files/2012/08/PretoriaStreetNameChanges.pdf |access-date=14 May 2016}}</ref><br />
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